When a highly rated football recruit signs his name on the dotted line of his Letter of Intent, inking and setting in stone his declaration to play the game for Ohio State and Urban Meyer, a mad rush of entities instantly flies down the tunnel toward him.
Five-star facilities, upper-tier academic courses, a jam-packed Ohio Stadium and a career in the spotlight awaits those who saddle up regardless if they're a blue-chip recruit or two-star sleeper.
That collegiate football experience in Columbus, Ohio, allots with it the expectation — belief, even — that each and every time you and your teammates don the Scarlet and Gray Saturday afternoons, you will come out on the right side of the scoreboard when the clock reads zero.